Jay A. Istvan

Genzyme Corp. engages in development and manufacture of specialty therapeutic, surgical and diagnostic product. It serves in the areas of rare genetic diseases, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases and endocrinology. The company was founded on June 8, 1981 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Sensant Corp. provides medical imaging systems. It uses silicon ultrasound micro electro-mechanical systems or MEMS technology to provide a platform for medical imaging systems. The company was founded by Igal Ladabaum, Greg Johnstone, and Kirti Patel in 1998 and is headquartered in San Leandro, CA.

ProCure Treatment Centers, Inc. develops cancer treatment centers. The firm is dedicated to improving the lives of patients with cancer by increasing access to proton therapy, an alternative to traditional radiation. It provides design, construction, financing, staffing, training, and day-to-day operations of world-class proton therapy centers. The company was founded by John Montgomery Cameron in 2005 and is headquartered in Somerset, NJ.

Aptalis Pharma, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets pharmaceutical products for cystic fibrosis and gastroenterology. The company's products include Zenpep, Canasa, Carafate, Pylera, Lacteal, Panzytrat, Delursan, Rectiv and Salofalk.. It provides therapies for unmet medical needs including cystic fibrosis and gastrointestinal disorders. The company formulates and clinically develops enhanced pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products for itself and others using its proprietary pharmaceutical technology. Aptalis Pharma was founded 1982 and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Deloitte Consulting LLP provides business consulting services. It offers services related to public finance, public sector management, health and social protection, information technology, financial sector, and trade and investment. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Linden Manager LLC (Linden Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2004 by Anthony B Davis and Brain C Miller. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Fenwal, Inc. is a global medical technology company focused on improving transfusion medicine through expertise in blood separation, collection, filtration, storage, and transfusion. It offers apheresis collections, manual collections, therapeutics, specialty products, platelet safety, data management, data management, and customer solutions The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Lake Zurich, IL.

Healthcare Growth Partners LLC provides strategic consulting and investment banking services. It offers strategic advisory services, buy-side advisory, sell-side advisory, capital advisory services, and valuations. The company was founded by Jonathan Phillips in 2005 and is headquartered in Elmhurst, IL.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. operates as a wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm. It offers equity research, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, public financing and fixed income services. The firm serves individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients. The company was founded by Robert Wilson Baird in 1919 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.

Flexan LLC engages in the manufacture and market of custom molded rubber parts made from custom rubber compounds. Its molded rubber parts include bushings, connectors, diaphragms, domes, feed rollers, insulators, o-rings, plungers, poppets, seals, seats, suspensions, tubes and valve seals. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Aptalis Holdings Inc. operates as a holding company that develops, manufactures, licenses, markets and distributes therapies for unmet medical needs. It includes cystic fibrosis and gastrointestinal disorders through its subsidiaries. It also formulates and clinically develops enhanced pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical products for itself and others using its proprietary technology platforms including bioavailability enhancement of poorly soluble drugs, custom release profiles, taste-masking and orally disintegration tablet formulations. The company was founded on January 10, 2008 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.

Beaver-Visitec International, Inc. develops and manufactures products for ophthalmic and specialty microsurgical procedures. Its products include I-Ring pupil expander, knives and blades, electrosurgery, forceps, manipulators, specula, scissors, needle holders, diagnostic lights, and punctal occlusion. The firm offers following brands: Atomic Edge, Beaver, Maxi-Lite, Blu-Spot, Blu-Slit, C-Line, Ocutek, CustomEyes, OcuSeal, MultiVisc, Visc, Aqueo Premium, Merocel, Keracel, Weck-Cel, Visitec, Wet-Field, Accu-Temp, Endo Optiks, and Odyssey. The company was founded on July 29, 1965 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Adare Pharma Solutions, Inc. provides pharmaceutical outsourcing services. Its technologies are used to develop novel prescription and OTC products. Its brands include Viactiv, and Lactéol. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Lawrenceville, NJ.

Part of QuidelOrtho Corp., Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Bermuda Co. Ltd. is a Bermudian company that functions as an investment holding company. The company is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Vyaire Medical, Inc. operates as a global medical device company. The firm specializes in respiratory diagnostics, ventilation, anesthesia delivery and patient monitoring services. Its products include Bird Sentry 2 Blender, Vyntus WALK, Tri-Flo subglottic suction system and Multi-Link X2 ECG System. The company was founded in October 2016 and is headquartered in Mettawa, IL.

Hospi Corp. develops and manufactures medical devices for patients living with serious or terminal illness and the caregivers. It offers The Liquipill system, which allows for preparation of medication suspensions or solutions from pills and tablets. The company was founded by Bradford Macy, Igal Ladabaum and Richard L. Popp and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

Wanxiang HealthCare Investments (Wanxiang HealthCare) is a venture capital subsidiary of Wanxiang America Corp founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Elgin, Illinois.

Watershed Health, Inc. provides healthcare solution services. It offers patient education and engagement system to healthcare providers to help improve the quality of care-and outcomes-for patients with chronic diseases. The company was founded by Chip Grant in 2013 and is headquartered in New Orleans, LA.

Heartland Angels, Inc. (Heartland Angels) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Ronald Leslie Kirschner. The firm is headquartered in Skokie, Illinois.

Abiant, Inc. provides advanced imaging technology services. The firm designs, conducts, and analyzes neuroimaging studies for pharmaceutical partners to assess drug effects upon the brain. Its image data, which can be collected using small numbers of subjects, provides insight to a drug's brain penetration, target interaction, effects upon brain function, and impact upon disease pathology. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Grayslake, IL.